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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1944
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Cherbourg Resistance Ends;
Rommel Mass Tanks To
Thwart Paris Drive.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, July 1 (U.R) No fur
ther gains have been made in
the strong Allied bridgehead
across the Odon river, but en
emy attempts to infiltrate into
the Allied positions have been
repulsed, a communique said to
day.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, July 1 (U.R) Vast Al
lied forces streamed to the Caen
front tonight for a showdown
battle on the road to Paris with
seven German panzer divisions
believed under Field Marshal Er
win Rommel's personal com
mand, as American troops wiped
out the last enemy resistance on
Cherbourg peninsula.
It was again Rommel vs. Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery and
as the desert antagonists squared
away their forces, a tremendous
artillery barrage by both sides,
reminiscent of the night before
El Alamein, was thundering
across the Norman orchards,
filling the sky with flame.
New Landings Told
(A German DNB broadcast
heard by the U. S. federal com
munications commission said
that new Allied landings were
being effected behind a thick
smokescrer n east of the Orne es
tuary above Caen. German re
connaissance pilots sighted an
Allied fleet of about 300 ves
sels in front of the estuary, in
cluding battlf ships and heavy
and light cruisers the agency
said.
(A German Transocean News
Agency broadcast said that Al
lied battleships were shelling
the town and harbor of Le
Havre.)
German counterattacks intend
ing to ease the British strangle
hold continued for the fifth day,
but on a, diminished scale, and
mntrp trnnns recantured cround
which had been temporarily lost I
along the snouiaers oi ineir sa
lient across the Odon river be
low Caen.
The period of regrouping and
Jockeying Is almost over and of
ficial quarters said It is clear
that Montgomery soon will spear
deep into the interior of France
to speed the destruction of the
Wehrmacht.
Rush Supplies
United Press Correspondent
Ronald Clark reported from the
Caen front that hundreds upon
hundreds of vehicles were jam
packing roads leading inland
from the beaches in preparation
for the decisive battles.
Rommel, with 250.000 troops
and possibly 1000 tanks at his
command, may try an upsetting
attack as he did with disastrous
results before the Mareth line.
At best he could only delay the
start of Montgomery's offensive,
it was said.
The end of German resistance
In the Cherbourg area came
when Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad
ley's Yanks mopped up Cap De
La Hague by capturing the vil
lages of Omondville La Petite,
Omondville La Rouge and Gre
ville. , ,
A few stragglers remained to
be hunted down in the woods,
the last of 50 000 enemy tro.-.ps
who fell captive or died on the
field In the brief but bloody bat
tle for Cherbourg port
A German DNB broadcast ad
mitted that the fight for Cher
bourg and the northern capes of
the peninsula had ended. Be
tween 30 and 40 minesweepers
entered Cherbourg Saturday,
and garrisons in German strong
points commanding the road
stead had no more ammuni-lon
with which to attack them, DNB
said.
Mexico City, July 1 U.R
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard arrived here
tonight by train from Washing
ton. NO PAPER TUESDAY
The Mail Tribune will go to
press at noon Monday and
will not publish on Tuesday,
Julv 4th.
Dewey-Bricker Breakfast Table
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Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (right), Republican presidential nominee, confers with his November running mate,
Gov. John W. Brlcker, over breakfast table in Chicago on morning following Dewey's acceptance speech at
O. O. P. convention.
ANTI-NAZI RIOTS
UNRESTSPREADS
Scores Killed, 700 Wounded
General Strike Cause
Of Uprising.
Stockholm, Germany, July 2
(U.R) Wild street riots that bor
dered on revolution were report
ed in Copenhagen early today
and Danish press dispatches said
reinforced German troops had
killed at least a score of persons
and wounded up to 700 more in
an all-day battle against 15,000
rebellious patriots.
Information trickling Into
Stockholm indicated that anti-
Nazi disorders and protest strikes
were spreading like a flame
through Hitler's one-time model
protectorate, despite ruthless
counter measures.
German machine guns and ar
tillery were reported to have
opened fire on the rebels In Co
penhagen and one account said
Nazi planes strafed the street
crowds, killing and wounding
many.
All roads leading to Copenha
gen were reported to have been
blocked by the Germans last
night as troop trains rushed re
inforcements into the capital and
Gestapo squads prowled through
the streets, rounding up hos
tages to be executed if the up
rising continued.
Reports reaching Malmoe from
Copenhagen said the Gestapo ar
rested 100 trade union leaders
and three of the city's five bur
gomasters, threatening to shoot
them unless the general strike
which provoked the uprising
was called off immediately.
An estimated -300,000 to 400,
000 Danish workers were be
lieved Involved in the strike,
which was called in protest
against the German-imposed cur
few and the arming of the Dan
ish Nazi Schaburg corps.
At the height of the street bat
tle yestfcrday crowds of patriots
assembled outside King Chris
tian's residence at Sorgenfri
castle to demonstrate their loy
alty to the king.
IN SAIPAN FRAY
Washington, July 1 flJ.B)
The navy revealed tonight that
American troops fighting the
bloody battle for Saipan com
prised the veteran marine Sec
ond and Fourth divisions and the
army 27th Infantry division.
The hard-fighting expedition
ary force identified for the first
time in a curt Pacific fleet head
quarters press release, has taken
approximately half the Japanese
held Island at a cost of more than
9000 casualties the highest loll
yet paid by American forces In
the Pacific.
OF GERMANS TAKE
TOLL IN ENGLAND
Southern England, Sunday, Ju
ly 2 (U.R) The roar of explod
ing bombs and the crash of fall
ing buildings ushered in the 17th
straight day of the German ro
bot offensive on southern Eng
land this morning, adding to the
toll of lives and property already
lost in the Nazis' campaign of
vengeance.
Spieading death and destruc
tion across the blacked-out coun
tryside in blind reprisal for the
Allied bombing of Germany, the
enemy's flying torpetioes land
ed at a number of points during
the night.
One bomb landed squarely on
a shelter in which an unknown
number of peisons were believ
ed to have been sleeping, and
another damaged a nearby school
building.
RAF and American heavy '
bombers struck back at the en
emy's launching bases in the '
Pas De Calais area of northern ;
France yesterday afternoon and!
evening with undisclosed results. I
A number of schools, hospitals
and playgrounds were among
the targets smashed by the blind
bombers yesterday.
NAZIS.READY TO
London, July 2 (U.R) The
London Sunday dispatch today
published a Turkish radio re
port that the German High
Command has decided to evacu
ate all of the Italian peninsula,
leaving a small force to defend
the approaches to southern
France.
The dispatch said word of the
German decision was reported
by radio Ankara.
It added that Italian patriots
In northern Italy have received
Instructions to "paralyze" all
German communications serv
ices in that section within the
next week.
Holiday Exodus To
Be Largest In Years
Br United Press
Despite pleas by the Office of
Defense Transportation urging
the public to remain at home, the
largest Fourth of July holiday
exodus in years occurred Satur
day in all parts of the nation.
Travel in the midwest was pre
dicted te be the heaviest, with
the east and south Jamming
transportation facilities almost
as tightly.
Portland reported railroad
movement approximately the
same as last year with trains re
maining closed to regular travel
because of overtaxed facilities.
PEDESTRIAN TOLL
Salem, Ore., July 1 (U.R) Au
tomobile accidents caused the
deaths of two pedestrians In Ore
gon during the first five months
of 1944, a report Issued by the
secretary of state said today.
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FIFTH ARMY NEAR
PORT OF LEGHORN
IN ITALYDRIVE
French and British Also
Advance Florence De
clared "Open City".
Rome, July 1 (U.R) Ameri
can Fifth army troops have ad
vanced within 17 miles southeast
of the great Port of Livorno
(Leghorn) after outflanking the
coastal stronghold of Cecina,
while French forces to the east
have driven through the moun
tains to points six miles south of
the anciqnt Siena road junction,
it was announced today.
One American force driving up
east of Cecina forged across the
Cecina river and then swung
westward to its mouth, reaching i
a point 17 miles from Livorno,
and another pushed five miles
northwest from Bibbona to break
into the 'southern outskirts of
Cecina.
The French elements of Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth
moving northwari' toward Siena,
41 miles east of Cecina, and
Florence, 33 miles beyond Siena,
reached the area of La Villa, six
miles south of Siena, and Grotti,
a mile west of La Villa.
(The United Press listening
post in London heard the Oslo
radio say that Adolf Hitler had
declared Florence an "open city"
In order to "safeguard and pre
serve its historic treasures.")
In the center of the allied line
stretching 170 miles across Italy
from the Tyrrhenian to the Ad
riatic, British forces cleared the
entire west shore of Lake Trasl
mcno and pushed east, west and
north from Perugia despite stiff
German resistance. On the Adria
tic section other units of Lt. Gen.
Sir Oliver Lesse's 8th army
crossed the Chlcnti river at a
number of points and reached
the vicinity of Civitanova, 23
miles below the Port of Ancona.
The allies were driving for
ward steadily to the next Nazi
defense line the Pisa-Florence-Rimini
"Gothic line" on all sec
tors. '
CALIFORNIA GETS
San Francisco, July 1 (UP)
California received two-thirds,
or $18,807 388,000 of the $28,
351,827,000 in war contracts
given the 1 1 western states from J
June 1, 1940, through April 30, 1
1944. the California State Cham-,
ber of Commerce said today.
Washington was second with
$5,786,754 000, and Oregon third I
with $1,478,678,000.
Aircraft construction was Cali
fornia's major war industry, the
total mounting to $10,095,121,
000. Ship construction totalled
$4,065,065,000, ordnance $337.
867,000 and other types of war
supplies $1,277,131,000.
LT.
DIES IN ACTION
IS WORD TO
Death Came In Rome Cam
paignWidely Known in
This City.
To the growing list of Med
ford servicemen reported mis
sing or killed in action was ad
ded the name yesterday after
noon of 1st Lt. Robert R. (Bob)
Hammond, 33, commander of a
heavy weapons squadron with
the 45th Infantry Division in
Italy.
A graduate of Medford high
and the University of Oregon
law school, one of southern Ore
gon's leading golfers and man
ager of the Southern Oregon
Medical Service association prior
to enlisting in the army, Lt.
Hammond was killed in action
in Italy on May 28, according to
a telegram received from the
adjutant general's office by his
wife, Maxine, employe of the
California Oregon Power com
pany. No details of the action in
which Lt. Hammond lost his life
were contained In the message,
but Mrs. Hammond was told that
a letter, with more information,
was following.
Lt. Hammond's death occurred
just two days after he had suf
fered slight wounds, which re
quired medical attention for a
day. It happened Just one day
after he returned to his outfit,
while Allied troops were making
their big drive which resulted In
the capture of Rome. On May 28
the Americans were less than 30
miles from the Italian capital.
With United States troops, Lt.
Hammond spent many weeks on
the Anzio beachhead and partici
pated in all of the bitter action
there. Then, when the push was
launched that was to shatter
Nazi defenses there and below
Rome, Lt. Hammond's outfit was
a part of the show.
The widely-known, highly
popular young man was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Ham
mond of Fern Valley road. Mi.
Hammond is manager of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company here. A brother. Cap
tain Bruce Hammond, is a marine
i:i the south Pacific. A sister,
Virginia Hammond, and aunt,
Mrs. Nell Minklcr, live here.
Lt. Hammond was a member
of the Medford Elks lodge and
was one of the best golfers in
the city. He captured the annual
Southern Oregon-Northern Cali
fornia Invitational tournament
twice, In 1929 and 1931, and al
ways finished in the upper
bracket.
After enlisting in the army he
received his basic training at
Camp Roberts, Calif., and his of
ficers' training at Ft. Benning,
Ga., where he was commissioned.
He had direct command of a
squadron of heavy machine guns
and 81 mm. mortars.
LONDON TRIP BY
PRESIDENT SEEN
London, Sunday, July 1 (U.R)
The London Sunday Times said
In a front-page article today that
President Roosevelt may soon
visit Great Britain for confer
ences with British and Russian
leaders.
"President Roosevelt Is be
lieved to be more than willing
to visit tnls country during the.
(Mi-scut jt-di, me iiuica wiim,
"No doubt he has been assured,
If assurance were needed, that
a great welcome awaits him
here. Renewed contacts betwien
the leaders of Britain, America
and Russia may soon be neces
sary." The Times' political corre
spondent expressed the opinion
that the forthcoming American
presidential election would not
prevent the president from mak
ing the trip.'
MEET POSTPONED
Portland, Ore., July 1 (U.R)
Meeting date of the Democratic
state central committee In Port
land has been postponed from
July 8 to July 29, the executive
committee announced today, I
NEW "SOIL MIXER"
TO OUTMODE FIVE
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Virginia Official Embodies
Book Theory In Machine,
He Reports.
(Copyrlqht. 1944, by United Prms)
Charleston, W. Va., July 1
(U.R) A "soil mixer" which Is
expected to outmode five farm
Implements and to revolutionize
farming in Mne with theories ad
vanced by Edward Faulkner in
his book "Plowman's Folly," has
been Invented by West Virginia
Agriculture Commissioner J. B.
McLaughlin, lt was revealed to
nieht. McLaughlin, who discussed
theories of preserving soil mois
ture with Faulkner before eitner
the book was written or the ma
chine built, said his soil mixer
would orepnre a seed bed "twice
as good as can be made with ex
isting equipment" at a rate of
four acres a day and at a cost
of 2 50 an acre.
The new method will cost one
fifth of the present amount re
quired to nrepare seed beds with
a plow, disc harrow, sniketooth
harrow, cultlpacker and fertiliz
er spreader and will do the job
In one-fifth the amount of time
In one operation.
"Plowman's Folly" attacks the
moldboard plow, which turns
earth back and over as it tills.
Faulkner says the plow promotes
soil erosion which wears out
farm land He said moisture was
lost by the creation of an air
Docket beneath the surface,
through which capillary action
could not function.
"Many agriculturists have
agreed with Faulkner in theory,
but have said there was no ag
ricultural implement which
would farm Faulkner's way. Mc
Laughlin says the soil mixer is
the mechanicnl answer to the
question posed by the book.
DEMOCRAT TREATY
PLANK PROPOSED
Washington, July 1 (U.R)
Chairman Sol Bloom, D., N. Y.,
of the House Foreign Affairs
committee today started a cam
paign for Inclusion in the dem
acratic party platform of a
plank calling for ratification
of peace treaties by both house
and senate by majority vote.
If he succeeds, it would place
the democrats on record in fa
vor of exactly the opposite pro
cedure advocated by the repub
licans. The G. O. P. adopted a
platform advocating that any
treaty "or agreement" to attain
international aims of the United
States "shall be made only by
and with the advice and consent
of the senate of the United
States, provided two-thirds of
the senators present concur."
PAIR AT EUGENE
Eugene, Ore., July 1 (U.R)
Triplets, the first in Sacred
Heart hospital's eight-year his
tory, were born at .the hospital
today, but it was nothing new
to the attending physician.
Dr. A. B. Peacock delivered
his third trio, this time to Mr.
and Mrs. E. Lyman Rowe, of
Eugene. The triplets, a boy and
two girls, weighed about four
pounds each.
New Deal Also Puts
Accent On Youth
Washington, July 1 (U.R)
The Democratic party, In a move
interpreted as a step toward
matching the Republican accent
on youth, tonight announced
that freshman Sen. Samuel D.
Jackson, D., Ind., will be per
manent chairman of the party
convention In Chicago this
month.
Jackson's selection was made
by a newly-created executive
committee of the Democratic na
tional committee.
War Bulletins
London, July 1 (U.R) The
British Air Ministry an
nounced that RAF transport
command planes have brought
more than 3,000 wounded
back from the invasion
bridgehead.
Air evacuation Is working
so well, the announcement
said, that one RAF fighter
pilot wounded in the leg dur
ing an air battle over France,
received treatment in Eng
land only five hours after he
took off on his mission.
London, July 1 (U.R) The
Exchange Telegraph Agency
said today in a dispatch from
Istanbul that the Germans
were evacuating the Dodecan
ese islands. Ships were passed
through the straits by Turkisn
authorities after they had sat
isfied themselves they were of
commercial character, the dis
patch said.
Nazi Main Line In East Is
Threatened by Swift Ad
vance; Enter Poland.
London, July 1 (U.R) Three
nrturorful finvlnt nrmlna Ininnri
' forces along the Berezina river
, east of Minsk lodny for a frontal
assault on the White Russian
, capital as other Red army spear
heads, outflanking the city from
the south, drove to within 25
miles of the Minsk Warsaw-Berlin
railroad, the Nazis' main life
line in the east.
Driving ahead at Incredible
speed, Red army tank, infantry,
cavalry and armored forces
swept all German resistance be
fore them, enntnrrrl Rnrimu 4S
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'va ivi ..iii-is ui ifitiinn, aim
closed to within 3 miles of
Polotsky, five-point rail Junc
tion at the northern end of the
blazing 400-mile White Russian
front.
At the same time, Red army
trooos advanced 22 miles Inside
the Polish border with the cap
ture of Hcrmanolchl, 41 miles
west of Polotsk, and by the seiz
ure of that town rolled to with
in 56 miles of Dvinsk in Lithua
nia. More than 530 towns and set
tlements were swept up In the
Russian flood and Moscow's op
erational communique reported
that Marshal Konstantin K. Rok-
ossov.sky's 1st White Russian ar
my Friday took 12,000 German
psisoncrs, Increasing the num
ber taken from June 23 to June
30 by this army to 35,680. The
Germans seized included the
commander of the 6th infan
try divisions, Lt. Gen. Hevne.
and the commandant of captured
Bobruisk, Mul Gen Hammann.
F
OUT OF HOSPITAL
Seattle, July 1 (U.R) Former
Film Star Frances Farmer, who
was committed to the Western
Stale hospital at Steilacoom,
Wash., nearly three months ago
after a nervous breakdown, has
been pronounced completely
cured, her mother, Mrs. Lillian
V. Farmer, disclosed here to
night. The actress will be released
within a few days to the care of
Mrs. Farmer, who said she was
"convinced Frances had re
covered from mental trouble."
Miss Farmer plans to become
a nurse's aid, her mother said,
cither in Seattle or California.
Full Report Due On
Argentine Affairs
Washington, July 1 (U.R)
High American officials tonight
prepared for a full review next
week of United States-Argentine
relations which admittedly have
reached the lowest level In many
years.
U. S. ambassador to Argentina,
Norman Armour, Is en route to
Washington "for consultation."
He was ordered back by Secre
tary of State Cordcll Hull.
RUSSIAN ARMIES
MASS FOR FRONT
ATTACK ON MINSK
CENTRAL PACIFIC
AIRPOWER OFJAP
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Enemy's Fleet Chased Home
Losses High;1, Death
Rate at Saipan Heavy.
Pacific Fleet Headquarters,
Pearl Harbor, July 1 (U.R)
Hard-hitting United States carrier-based
planes have virtually
, eliminated Japanese air power
in trie Uentral Pacific and chased
i the Japanese fleet back to its
home waters in 19 busy days
since June 10 when the Mar
ianas campaign opened.
Since that date, carrier planes
have carried out strikes against
Jap-held bases or battled enemy
naval forces on all but five days
and three of these days they
were busy covering the Saipan
island landings.
The statistical result of this
unprecedented activity which
opponents of carrier warfare
once believed an impossibility
is as follows:
Destroyed: 760 Japanese
planes; 21 Japanese ships; 17
small craft.
Probably destroyed: 19 planes;
2 ships.
Damaged: 14 planes, 50 ships,
12 small craft. "
This activity has cost the U. S.
force 151 planes lost and four
ships damaged.
The practical result has been
to prevent aerial or naval Inter
ference with American landings
on Saipan and subsequent ground
i action which contributed In large
measure to U. S. dlficulties at
Guadalcanal and in New Guinea.
Despite the absence of all but
night nuisance raids, ground
fighting on Saipan developed in
to the bloodiest battle of Pacific
in which marines and army
troops are killing Japanese at a
rate of better than 3-to-l.
Japanese dead have amounted
to at least 4,951 buried by U. S.
forces while others probably
have been burled by the Japs
themselves. This compares with
1,474 U. S. dead.
There is no estimate available
on the number of Japanese
wounded but estimates of the
number of enemy troops on Sai
pan have ranged from 20,007 to
30.000, of which possibly 50 per
cent have been knocked out of
action in the first fortnight of
the campaign In which U. S.
ground forces have gained con
trol of more than half the Island
at a cost of 9,572 casualties
the highest price yet paid in the
Pacific war.
E
Canton, O., July 1 (U.R)
Nine thousand CIO workers In
four Canton plants of the Tim
ken Roller Bearing Co., re
mained onstrike for the fourth
day today, completely halting
production of war-vital parts
for B-29 superfortresses. Jeeps,
tanks, trucks, heavy guns and
marine engines.
Only 1,000 supervisory "em
ployees and maintenance work
ers remained on the Job as Finas
Reynolds, president of the Unit
ed Steel Workers of America
(CIO) local here, asserted that
the strikers would "not return"
to work until "true labor rela
tions" are restored.
The Timken company, which
operates under a slogan "every
thing that has gears or wheels
moves on our bearings," is the
nntion's largest manufacturer of
tapered roller bearings, a vital
part in nearly every type of
military equipment.
Sales to date In the FtlUi
War Loan Drive
1,580,613
"E" Sales
Quota
. $393,706
$600.000
Total Quota
for County
..$2,262,000